Sunday, August 26, 2012

It's not just because election time is rounding
the bend and equality is such a great seller for our politicians that
"equality" is tumbling around in my poor little mind. It's that it
has been ingrained so deeply into the fabric of our collective national
conscience. We demand it! We'll have it because it appeals to our sense of
fairness. We're created equal! My question is "How so?" In what way
can we possibly be equal as in, perhaps, the domain of reality? I think the
question is fair as we are constantly under a barrage of rhetorical
embellishments of life fulfilling eutopic conditions all consummated under the
banner of "equality for all." Once again I would ask ... "How
so?" ... and how do they suppose this can be done? ... And how would this
make things better?

It's obvious to me that "equality" is
elusive to say the least. I don't possess the same aptitudes of anyone else I
know. A persons station in life ... Isn't that somehow connected to aptitudes
and abilities? Does a collective education drawn from standardized requirements
solve the problem of dissimilar interests? Does being born into equal
circumstances level the field, somehow, as to motivational inducement? I can't
see that equality exists anywhere. As a Christian, I can't find it in the Bible
or even as something that is to be sought after. As a church, a body of
believers are all different, ... elders, teachers, exhorters, some less
honorable [that's me ... sometimes I’m doing well just to be a poor example] on
and on it goes. Still it's the big seller and we're somehow induced into the
idea that all will be fine if we can just attain it. How so?

Is it just me or are the ones pushing for
equality really pushing for equality or are they pushing for crowd control ...
or a more manageable herd. The equality under the law seems a bit elusive.
Variable consequence dictated by perview of assessors of political correctness
in the name of equality and fairness doesn't seem all that fair. To be equal
would seem to be related to what standard of convictions one would have to hold
or rather, at least, the convictions one had been assigned. The idealistic appeal of
equality disappears into a mist of confusion when one ponders as to who
dictates what one's convictions should be. Dictate seems to hold the key to this
puzzle. One needs to have a dictator to dictate.

Well, there you have it ... I've become
transparent. I think all these politicians selling the "equality for
all" are up to something sinister. "All things being equal" ...
idealistic gas of the worst kind. Purity and perversion? truth relativized?,
wrong and right?, sloth and industrious under the same roof? Equality doesn't
reside there. Light and dark merge to produce gray for the sake of inductive
equality? It produces questions for sure. Take a minute or two and reflect on
the answers. We're born with unalienable rights for freedom and the pursuit of
happiness that would all be negated by a society that ignores the possibilities
that reside in God's unique gifting and precepts made for us as unique and
varied as His creation. The "equality" that they sell is a promise of
security in exchange for these God given opportunities based on ability,
commitment, diligence, forbearance, and faith that yield their reward and
harvest according to their merit and God's grace. It raises disturbing thoughts
for those who have little interest in cultivating any of the aforementioned
traits.The ranks of those thus
crippled by the lure of a free ride and guaranteed entitlements grows and
empowers the corrupt who at the time of victory will just as quickly deem them
a liability. But then, it's possible that at that time they're dreams of
equality will be realized.

II Peter 2:19 "While they promise them
liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is
overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage."

About Me

I'm the dreaded fundamentalist you keep hearing about from the media. I believe the Bible [textus receptus]. I'm not a flavor [???? Christian], just Christian and amazed by the church's concessions hoping to appease an anti-Christian [rather a fallen societal antichrist deluded socialist agenda] sentiment fueled by the constant barrage of misrepresentations by a biased [lying] constituancy.